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8:30 PM ET, December 30, 2024

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Max Tani / Semafor:
News media personalities including Andrew Ross Sorkin, David Remnick, Rachel Maddow, Mehdi Hasan, and Bari Weiss reflect on the things they got wrong in 2024  —  The News  —  The news media is wrong all the time — though not exactly as its loudest critics claim.
The Guardian:
Tortoise Media reports a pre-tax loss of £3.8M for 2023, down from previous year's loss of £4.6M, after reducing spending and cutting some staff  —  Company that has agreed to buy the Observer reports a pre-tax loss of £3.8m for 2023 after shedding some roles
Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter:
Howl CEO Li Haslett Chen steps down from WBD board, opening the way for a high-profile addition to the board in 2025 amid plans to spin off TV assets  —  The tech exec's exit could open the way for a high-profile addition to the studio's board of directors in 2025 amid plans to possibly spin off its legacy TV assets.
Discussion: The Wrap, Variety, Deadline and Reuters
Reuters:
Iran confirms the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala; Italy declines to say whether the case might be linked to the arrest of an Iranian in Italy  —  Iran confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala for “violating the laws of the Islamic Republic”, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
A federal appeals court upholds a $5M judgment against Trump after a jury found Trump liable in 2023 for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll  —  A jury handed down the award after finding Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer
Rachel Hall / The Guardian:
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy urges YouTube, TikTok, and other streaming services to promote higher quality educational content to children  —  UK culture minister says government wants to ‘open a dialogue’, but will intervene if platforms do not comply  —  The UK culture secretary …
Discussion: @seatradelaw and @nickcope4
William Christou / The Guardian:
A look at Syria's state news agency Sana, which led Assad's propaganda effort for the past 13 years, as its journalists hope for freedom after the regime's fall  —  For years reporters at Syria's state news agency had to toe the line.  As life in Syria grew harder, so did the their work
The Guardian:
The commentary editor of Germany's Welt am Sonntag resigns after the Axel Springer group paper published a piece by Elon Musk in support of far-right AfD party  —  Billionaire Trump adviser said his ‘significant investments’ in the country justified his wading into German politics
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Industry executives say media companies expect ad spending to stabilize in 2025 and even grow for platforms with sports and live events  —  The advertising market has positive momentum going into 2025 — especially for media companies with sports rights and tentpole live programming.
Ivan Oransky / Retraction Watch:
All but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier's Journal of Human Evolution resign, to protest changes like eliminating “support for a copy editor”  —  All but one member of the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), an Elsevier title, have resigned …
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Cablevision founder Charles Dolan, a cable TV industry pioneer who launched HBO and AMC Networks and whose family controls Madison Square Garden, dies at 98  —  Cablevision founder's holdings stretched from local TV systems to Madison Square Garden  —  Charles Dolan, a pioneer …
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Filing: Trump asks SCOTUS to pause the law that could ban TikTok, saying the court should give him time to “pursue a political resolution” of the dispute  —  President-elect Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to pause a law that would ban the TikTok social media platform …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Eight free-speech groups, including the EFF, and three members of Congress file briefs with SCOTUS in support of TikTok's appeal against the divest-or-ban law
 
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Washington Post:
Sources: Chinese government hackers breached the US Treasury Department's OFAC, which administers economic sanctions, and two other Treasury offices

Matt Simons / Courthouse News Service:
A US judge blocks parts of California's SB 976, a law to protect kids from social media, citing 1A concerns, but allows a ban on “addictive feeds” for minors

Wall Street Journal:
As Beijing pushes for self-sufficiency in the $80B+ per year car chip business, sources say the use of homemade chips in Chinese cars has risen to around 15%
 
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